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Herodotus first speaks of Solon, regarding him as a law giver only. Thucydides makes no mention of him but Lycias does. Xenophon knows him as a philosopher. Isocrates is the first to call him the founder of the democracy, and one of the seven wise men. Plato speaks of him as the grandest of poets, and refers to his great epic. aeschines thinks of him as the lawgiver. Demosthenes and Aristotle both reverence him for his deeds for the state...
...college Seeley was known as a painstaking and industrious student. He took an unusually large number of courses, and distinguished himself by getting honorable mention in Mathematics. But few people realized how hard he struggled to support himself. By great exertions he managed to lay by enough to enable him to graduate. He never, however, received his diploma. The little sum so dearly earned was lost, but through no fault of his. Too pround to accept a loan offered by a classmate, he left college and took a position as assistant engineer...
Edward Anson Seeley '90 was accidentally shot in the leg, while hunting in the West, and before help could reach him bled to death. He was one of the brightest men in his class, and took honorable mention in Mathematics...
...played tackle on the foot ball team this year. Crosby is also a foot ball man; he played end rush. Balliet rowed on his '92 class crew, and is a good oar. Klimpke has long been a promising candidate for the crew, and of the great Heffelfinger, the mere mention is enough...
...Saturday the provisions of the will of the late Edwin Conant, of Worcester, mention of which was made in Thursday's CRIMSON, were announced. As was announced Harvard College is made residuary legatee. The entire estate is valued at $300,000, and the greater part of it is deeded away in public bequests. These bequests are as follows...